Senior Consultant, Supply Chain Design

Overview

In this role you will shape and grow the Supply Chain Design & Operation advisory offering, connecting master-planning and operational design with policy, regulation and commercial strategy. You’ll work across multidisciplinary teams to translate complex supply chain challenges into practical, scalable solutions and help establish a new practice area. You will engage clients, lead or contribute to projects, and support business development to mature the vertical. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of design, operations and growth.

Pay / Benefits

• inclusive and collaborative environment
• flexible, hybrid working
• career growth and development
• opportunity to influence a growing advisory proposition
• long-term, impact-focused work
• employee-owned culture

Responsibilities

• Develop the Supply Chain Design & Operation offer, defining methodologies and growth priorities
• Identify priority client opportunities and support proposals, bids and early delivery
• Advise on master-planning, operational design and site or network concepts
• Build and maintain trusted client relationships as a supply chain design advisor
• Lead or contribute to workstreams within engagements, ensuring scope, timeline and quality
• Assess facilities, land use, infrastructure and operating models for growth and commercial outcomes
• Translate technical design questions into strategic considerations including market feasibility and business case
• Act as integration point across design, policy, regulatory, commercial and sector specialists
• Define proposition, methods and capability foundations to scale the vertical
• Contribute as seller-doer, combining BD with advisory input, thought leadership and market engagement

Key requirements

• Strong systems thinking with breadth beyond pure master-planning
• Ability to connect design decisions with operations, commercial outcomes, policy and growth ambitions
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and shaping opportunities in an emerging space
• Strong communication skills and collaborative problem-solving; credibility with senior stakeholders
• Experience in management consulting, master-planning, logistics infrastructure, industrial development, operational design or commercial leadership
• Understanding of end-to-end supply chain issues and how network design and transformation improve performance
• Ability to link technical design thinking with commercial value and implementation context
• Experience working with senior stakeholders on complex development or transformation challenges
• Cross-disciplinary collaboration across advisory, technical and sector teams
• Track record in business development, proposition building or growing a new service line
• Exposure to digital/analytics, automation or planning tools is beneficial but not essential

• strong communicator
• collaborative problem-solver
• credibility with senior stakeholders
• master-planning
• site utilisation
• network design

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